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The Golden Gear Awards (2013)

It's that time of year GrabCADrs! Design the second annual Golden Gear Award trophy for our annual celebration of all things awesome in the GrabCAD Community.

Why do we have the Golden Gear awards?

Here at GrabCAD we value every engineer and designer that makes life better for someone else by sharing their beloved creations with the Community. This annual tradition (Golden Gear Awards 2012) is our way of saying thank you. So, go have fun and create a trophy design!

It's also your chance to nominate your favorites for recognition. Your fellow members produce and share astonishing work every day. Having insanely cool, well-crafted CAD models is what makes us tick.

Who decides the winners of the trophy challenge?

This year's Golden Gear Awards will go to staff picks and community picks in all kinds of categories: models, renderings, tutorials, and more!

Create a trophy for our Golden Gear Award winners

We need a trophy to give our Golden Gear winners. Who better to design a bit of physical product goodness than you? Create something that you would want to take home because, after all, the winner of this Challenge will get a Golden Gear, too! Golden Gear Awards winners will be announced here after the New Year along with the Trophy Challenge winners.

You can download a PDF of the GrabCAD logo and a sample STL of a newer version of Grabby we are working on via the Download specifications button. This year we are letting you pick the material and size of your trophy print - just keep it under $100 per trophy. Include your material of choice, size, and estimated cost in your model description.

The Procedure for the Golden Gear Awards

1. Nominate your favorite engineers and models in the comments of this Challenge.
2. Create a trophy design and submit it.
3. Your favorite Community contributions in 2013 receive the winning 2013 trophy design.
4. The Challenge winner gets their trophy and all honorable mentions get a special gift from Hardi.
5. Everyone has a happy holiday!

Requirements

You must include:- STL version
- One rendering showing off trophy in your chosen print material
- Unless stated we will use Sandstone as material
(http://www.shapeways.com/materials/sandstone)
- Use any software you like to create!
- Include "2013" in the model somehow

You are encouraged to include:- Custom material you want to use
(http://www.shapeways.com/materials?li=nav)
- Size and cost of Shapeways print
- Fun colors such as GrabCADr Red (#DB2B22)
- Include "Golden Gear" somehow in the model
- Description that tells us why your trophy is one every GrabCADr would want to take home.

Tip from @Stephen.Nyberg: Full color sandstone prints by Shapeways requires color information like VRML (*.WRL) and you need to change the settings by going to options after you select the WRL file and change the version from VRML 1.0 to VRML 97.

Rules

The competition is open to everyone. Multiple entries are acceptable. Team entries are welcome - prize will be transferred to team leader. Participants may only win one prize per Challenge.

Tag your entry with “goldengear2013” when uploading to GrabCAD. If you submit through the "Submit entry" button, this should be added automatically. Only entries with valid tag will participate. Only entries uploaded to GrabCAD through the "Submit entry" button on this Challenge page will be considered an entry. Private entries are not eligible.

By entering this competition, you
1. Warrant that the work is your original work.
2. To the best of your knowledge, it is not, and has not been in production or otherwise previously published or exhibited.
3. Neither the work nor its use infringes the intellectual property rights (whether a patent, utility model, functional design right, aesthetic design right, trade mark, copyright or any other intellectual property right) of any other person.
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If you think an entry may infringe on existing copyrighted materials, please email challenges@grabcad.com.

Applicants are not entitled to any compensation or reimbursement for any costs. The applicant’s participation shall not constitute employment, assignment or offer of employment or assignment.

The awarded participant is solely liable for the payment of all taxes, duties and other similar measures if imposed on the reward pursuant to the legislation of the country of his/her residence, domicile, citizenship, workplace, or any other criterion of similar nature.

Only public entries will be considered. Any private submissions will be made public at the Challenge deadline.

Winning designs will be chosen based on the rules and requirements. This Challenge ends on December 30, 2013 (11:59pm UTC). Finalists will be announced by Jan 20, 2013 and winners will be announced one week later.

Void where prohibited.

We will release the finalists before the final announcement to give you, the Community, an opportunity to voice your favorites and concerns in the comments. The jury will take these into consideration when picking the final winner. This addition is based on feedback from you!

Prizes

3D printed trophy + GrabCAD shirt + One of a kind surprise from Hardi

Golden Gear Trophy Design Winner

3D Printed Trophy + GrabCAD shirt + Surprise from Hardi

Golden Gear Trophy Design Honorable Mentions

GrabCAD shirt + Surprise from Hardi

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LOL why not the gold plated ploished brass for that matter? It is cheaper than the silver and is fitting for the "Golden"Gear Award. :) I don't think those are probably in the budget but it may be fun to see...

I guess you could tell us a price range and then it could be open to any of the materials on Shapeways. design according to a particular material, state it in the description with the final size and price to print and render accordingly.

Any chance of getting images of the various stickers GC sends out? I am working on a trophy for this years GoldenGear Award and thought it would be cool to have a flat area to apply a sicker to so would like the dimensions of the stickers and some of images for renders. I figured if it is printed in a single color this could add a little bit of flair to it.

Is there a dollar amount we should shoot for? I am uploading my models to Shapeways to ensure they are printable in a particular material and figured I would add the cost to print in the description but I wan't sure if there was a goal or limit for the cost.

If the design is made to be printed in full color sandstone, a file format other than an STL will be needed that includes the color information. I used SW 2012 and the file format that Shapeways takes is the VRML (*.WRL) and you have to change the settings by going to options after you select the WRL file and change the version from VRML 1.0 to VRML 97.

And special for this two :
sheet metal guillotine shears ( wood-steel )Entry # 2Because 1st I think that is the biggest collection of open source models owned be one person here on Grabcad, and secont all of this things exist in real world they are not just shiny renders and some CAD but real things, you can touch them or build be your own. Of course I like to see more nominations in this category to see more open source things.

@Pouriya, the file formats that Shapeways supports for color printing are; DAE, WRL, X3D, X3DB, X3DV. I use solid works so the only file format that I saw was the WRL and the first time I uploaded it to Shapeways I got a message that shapeways does not support VRML 1.0 and that is why I had to change it to VRML 97. I am not sure what XGL or ZGL are but I would try and see if your software can create a file mentioned above. Aslo, you could always try and upload it to Shapeways and then you can see if your file will work and how much a print will be.

I would like to nominate John Fall and Michal for 2 outstanding Motorcycle engineering projects,the modeling is a CAD master piece in itself but the amount of work that went into figuring out the old drawings to provide the accuracy has to be tried for people to understand how hard a task it is,this is a task that can take months as detail and accuracy are always withheld.
Would just like to thank John and Michal as like all Grabcadders we always look forward to seeing projects like this,it sets the bar high but lets us all know that there are no limits only the imagination!

I would like to nominate TomasTop Manufacturing or Construction Model award -
https://grabcad.com/tomas--16/projectsfor the best engineer on GrabCAD for his over all uploads of one of the best profiles on GrabCAD this guy takes design to another level that we can all learn from.

@sara, it is nice to see that you ate looking at the entries and actually giving constructive feedback I think it is important in the challengea to know that the judges ate actually looking at all the designs Thank you!

With big pleasure I will add my nomiations....but I'm confused.....!!!
Please Sara or somebody elese explain me cleary in few points what shall "model" have got to be classified in:
"Top Open Engineering Project"??
and
"Top Manufacturing or Construction Model"

i belive this second model shall have got all detailed parts (or also full 2d blueprints with dimmensions and tollerances...) which can be easy manufactured by somebody who downloaded it -for example full model of some industrial air tank or conveyor....
...................
I belive that nominations for :
Most Likeable Model
and
Most Downloaded Model

SHALL be considered and nominated ONLY by GRAB CAD team
They can easy filter all models from 2013 and watch witch of them are the MOST ....
Some people (and also I ) -for 100% missed some good model appeared in GC this yeart -so they can not wote for them.../
The other thing which make hard to finding of these models by normal member is:
there is no DATE of UPLOAD project on overview page of projects...
For example @Tibor nomiated "clock from plywood" uploaded about 2 years ago.................
..........
I would like to see another cathegory :
***************
"Most excellent rendering of someones model" or something
***************
a lot of people made a good renders with big efford and nobody noticed it ..
..
Regards
michal

I would need to agree with michal on a reward for rendering. Rendering is another skill that takes a long time to learn how to render to a high level and there is some great efforts and time taking within the GrabCAD community for there renders

As you see above on @Darren nominations :
most of these projects were uploaded more than 12 months ago--
so they can not fight for 2013 Trophy...in my opinion
otherwise these superb models will take trophy every year he he -(they are damn good)
Or am I wrong?
Do we have to nominate models from 2013 ONLY?

When the finalists are released, it would be nice to see that the have been varified to be printable and what the cost to print in the desired material would be As part of the description as to why the jury chose a model.

Thanks for all nominations and entries! Each will be considered for Golden Gears! You're all correct in thinking it's for 2013 only (but it's always nice to see comments thanking members for their contributions from years past) and most downloaded, commented, and liked will be based on our internal data in those categories. Also, I'll be sure to add printability and estimated cost in all finalists descriptions, great idea @Stephen.

A little fun while we wait for results: which trophy other than yours is one you'd want to display on your desk? Also, what are your engineering goals for 2014? I'm ready to add another CAD model to my profile this year!

Hi.
A lot of people nominate "Lost paradise" of Tommy Mueller---
But it is collaboration project and all modellers shall have their prizes for big efford they made in modeling....
Tommy of course started with this awesome idea of made this project
Tommy also made a big efferd to assembly all models together-i respect it but all collaborators shall have their prize too.......
Anyway is this project finished jet?

Ya michal am completely agree with your good thoughts, Mr. Mueller will get the prizes for the best collabrative works/Imaginatives ( to keep the Co-Grabber's working together) but instead of thi The grabby team should have to consider the Insiders which are working silently and doing lots of great stuff to make the collaboration success.

And also some little prizes for those who are Grab-cad leader's means suggesting the new Ideas, Awesome works etc.

@Stephen I'd like to do another accessory for my desk, like the bowl. I'm inspired by all I've learned from GrabCADrs over the last year and more!
@michal @sourbh We will find a way to recognize all involved depending on which project is picked :)

Everyone did an incredible job submitting creative entries with lots of love for GrabCAD! We love all of them and picking favorites was so tough. Which one is your favorite? Did we leave anything amazing off the list? See something we should know about? Let us know in the comments! Check out the Result page for more details and to see the finalists. http://grabcad.com/challenges/the-golden-gear-awards-2013/results

After going through 10Ks of models to find this year's winners for Golden Gears, I'll be posting winners and the trophy they'll be getting tomorrow... All I can say after looking at awesome models and renderings non-stop is that you guys all rock!!!

Winners are posted for both the trophy and the Golden Gear awards! There were so many more models and tutorials I would like to highlight but I hope you enjoy the ones listed. The surprise is just that, a surprise!, so you won't hear about that until delivery. All the winners can expect to hear from us via the email listed in your GrabCAD account soon.
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You can share this page and this blog post, http://blog.grabcad.com/2014/01/2013-golden-gear-awards, with your friends and coworkers. Congratulations to all GrabCADrs for an amazing 2013!

Also there is no word about software prizes we won (Jonathan and me) on Razor Scooter challange, neither Solid Edge - SIEMENS or Keyshot-Luxion. The rest is fine. :)
just reminding if you have forgott.

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